LOS ANGELES — On January 8, Metro, which operates bus, subway and light rail lines throughout the Los Angeles metropolitan area, announced that the “Stadium Express” will shuttle hockey fans between Union Station in Downtown Los Angeles (see map below) and Dodger Stadium for the Stadium Series game featuring the Anaheim Ducks facing off against the Los Angeles Kings on January 25, 2014 (6:30 PM face-off).

General parking at Dodger Stadium for the Stadium Series game costs—hold onto your hats—$20.00, and goes as high as $50.00 for passenger cars. At those exorbitant prices, why pay for fuel, parking and fight traffic when you can take public transportation that is, in many ways, more convenient?

NHL STADIUM SERIES MEDIA DAY COVERAGE: Part 2 of Frozen Royalty’s comprehensive coverage of the NHL Stadium Series Media Day at Dodger Stadiun focuses on how the upcoming outdoor game at Dodger Stadium is a throwback to hockey’s roots, but is a very unfamiliar concept here in Southern California.

LOS ANGELES — With the National Hockey League’s Stadium Series coming to Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on January 25, 2014, where the Los Angeles Kings will host the Anaheim Ducks in one of six outdoor games scheduled this season, something that stands out in all this is the fact that outdoor ice hockey is a completely foreign concept here in Southern California.

Indeed, the fact is that the only outdoor hockey we know here is played on roller skates, or in a pair of tennis shoes in a park, schoolyard, or a neighborhood street.

NHL STADIUM SERIES MEDIA DAY COVERAGE: Frozen Royalty’s comprehensive coverage of the NHL Stadium Series Media Day at Dodger Stadium begins with remarks from NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, Stan Kasten from the Los Angeles Dodgers, Luc Robitaille from the Los Angeles Kings, and Bruce Boudreau from the Anaheim Ducks. Next up: comments from Kings and Ducks players on the outdoor game in January 2014.

LOS ANGELES — Nearly three years ago, not long after the National Hockey League’s Winter Classic was held at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman was in Los Angeles, and he took some time to meet with the media.

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